Melinda Miles

Co-Director, Haiti Reborn/ Quixote Center, Hyattsville, MD

Melinda Miles has been actively involved in Haitian issues since 1993. She coordinates the Haiti Reborn program of the Quixote Center, which supports community-based Haitian initiatives in the U.S. and advocates for justice in U.S. policy toward Haiti and its people. Miles has coordinated over a dozen delegations to Haiti and was a press spokesperson for the International Coalition of Independent Observers for Haiti's elections held in 2000. She authored a report on that process, "Elections 2000:Monitoring Participatory Democracy in Haiti."